Questions tagged [connections]
One or more connections to a database or database server. For questions about *establishing* a connection, use the **connectivity** tag instead.
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Is sp_getapplock recommended for long running locks (> 10 minutes)?
I'm trying to get rid of a Redis dependency in our application.
We notice that is worse for our uptime to have a dependency on both SQL and Redis, above the performance benefits Redis would give us.
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What is “direct client connections” to Oracle?
The Oracle document states:
A read/write database instance, which is the default, can process DML and supports direct connections from client applications. In contrast, a read-only database ...
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MSSQL over the internet but we connect over RDP
We connect throguh RDP to our ERP solution which uses MSSQL 2008, right now I can see on windows logs and SQL logs that we have a HUGE amount of connection attempts to sa user and results in slow ...
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What is a connection in MySQL Workbench?
I've searched so much and still found no answer to what exactly a connection is. I'm a beginner and don't know how connecting to databases/servers works, so I can't move forward yet.
What does the ...
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Way to check where the MySQL connection was initialized?
Is there a way to identify who created the MySQL connection?
For example:
in file a.php
$conn = mysqli_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpwd, null, $port, $socket);
I would like to know that this ...
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SQL Server DAC - Connection Issue
I am having a strange issue when trying to connect to my SQL Server instance remotely from my client computer. I am able to do this on my other instances by opening up a new Database Engine Query and ...
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Adding PostgreSQL data source to excel didn't ask for credentials other than server IP and database
I saw Excel supported using PostgreSQL as a data source. I'm used to using ODBC connections for Access so having direct Postgres support is exciting.
When connecting I entered the Server IP and ...
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SQL Mirroring - Application not pointing to new Primary
Im stuck with a connection string issue
this is my connection string.
<add name="APP01" connectionString="Server=10.169.0.2; Failover Partner=10.166.0.2; Initial Catalog=DB2017; Integrated ...
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Mysql Connections are string when checking from SHOW STATUS LIKE '%onn%';
I have a Mysql db server which seems to be getting slow by time. When i am checking detail from SHOW STATUS LIKE '%onn%'; I get following details
Variable_name Value ...
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MySQL Server :: My C Code can remotely create a database, but not “INSERT INTO” it
I’ve written a C program which does the following when it starts:
Connects to a remote Linux MySQL server over the network
Creates a new, uniquely-named database
Sends a “USE _____” command to ...
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MySQL performance tuning related connection
I am running openstack cloud and it use mysql database which is MariaDB 10.1.30
I am sometime seeing connection reset from multiple clients, to trying to find out what is going on in database, I am ...
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PostgreSQL 11 and pgagent connection string issue
On PostgreSQL 11 running on Windows 2012 server, I created a job with pgagent and pgAdmin4.
In the step, in connection string I used the password parameter and it works.
Instead, I would like to use ...
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How do I do an ODBC connection to ORACLE from SSIS/ Visual studio?
Despite that OLE Db and ADO.NET are newer than ODBC potentially, I've heard that ODBC connections to Oracle are potentially faster within SSIS.
So --- I'm trying to set up a simple ODBC connection to ...
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How to deny access to SQL Server to certain login over SSMS, but allow over .Net SqlClient Data Provider
We have a situation where Developers do not have any UPDATE permissions, BUT they work with applications and see connection strings -> they know passwords from some SQL accounts (example SQLLogin1) ...
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MySQL stalls and strange threads/connections behavior is observed
We have a MySQL instance which most of the time works just fine. From time to time, however, we observe strange behavior. What happens is that suddenly MySQL connections reach the limit (currently set ...
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Error reading packet from server: Lost connection to MySQL server during query ( server_errno=2013)
Getting one issue in error log in every 30-45 mins. Mysql version 5.6.20-log
Server is slave of master main server and its having 100 slaves to this server.
Replication hierarchy is there in 3 stages.
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Are CNAME aliases for connection strings a good idea?
To be very flexible and move database to different servers more easily, we came up with the idea of using an alias per database. So by simply changing a DNS entry, we can route all queries to a ...
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pg_dump: Write failed: Connection reset by peer
we are trying to move all database data to other location.
we chose to perform pg_dump and we encountered few problems:
first was out of memory problem:
during pg_dump initialization we get an error:
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Sharing read/write resources between connections in an unfair way
I have two applications that connect to a Postgresql database.
A read-only application querying tuned MVs
A write-only application updating the database and the MVs
We only really require that (1) ...
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Can't connect to MS SQL Server via IP address anymore
I'm using a PLC connected to a laptop (over EthernetIP). The development software for programming the PLC has a built in settings page for connecting it to various database engines (MySQL, PostgreSQL, ...
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“Keyword not supported: Server” error when using ADO.NET connection string to connect to Azure DB
I have an ASP.Net project that I am running. I have added a database to Azure, and Azure generated a connection string for the database. When running the application I however get an error stating ...
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Database Connection vs Raw TCP Connection [closed]
I have some fundamental questions about how database clients & database interact
Do databases support multiple transactions simultaneously on a single database connection from client? If not, why ...
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Keep H2 in-memory database between connections
I create and use a H2 database in-memory (no writing to storage) for demos and quick tests using this code in Java:
Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection( "jdbc:h2:mem:example_db" ) ;
This ...
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Switching users in PgAdmin
I'm looking for a way to enable switching between users in pgAdmin 4. I'm aware of the possibilty to change user from the properties-dialog before connecting. However this isn't useful when I'm ...
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What is purpose of `ALLOW_CONNECTIONS` being set so no one can connect to the new Postgres database?
In Postgres 11, the CREATE DATABASE command that makes a new catalog has an option ALLOW_CONNECTIONS. The documentation says this option can be used to block all connections to the database:
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Can `listen_addresses` system configuration setting in Postgres stop pre-authentication exploits?
You can set various configuration parameters for Postgres by either editing the postgresql.conf file manually or by calling ALTER SYSTEM commands.
One of those config settings is listen_addresses. ...
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MySQL: No. of Connections
I have a medium sized database (7 GB) with around 200 concurrent users. I am getting some database lag issues, suddenly my node-mysql client freezes during selects and inserts.
As a process of ...
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What connection do internal sessions belong to in MS SQL Server?
By querying
select * from sys.dm_exec_connections
I do not see corresponding connections for internal sessions, about the existance of which I know from sys.dm_exec_sessions DMV.
My questions is ...
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database connection and sessions in an example of social media
I am referring to MS SQL connection and sessions. I know that each application should make a connection in order to access the database, and each connection can have multiple sessions. In case of a ...
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Logon failed for login due to trigger execution
I have been trying to login using one of my sql server logins but I am getting the error message below:
General Error Message
Copy Message Text
TITLE: Connect to Server
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Cannot connect to <instance>. A severe error occurred on the current command
Recently, and on more than one occasion now, we have attempted to connect from one of our SQL Server instances to another using SSMS only to be greeted with the following error:
A severe error ...
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Percona pt-table-sync Can't determine Master
We have following Multi master replication scenario. We are using MariaDB 10.1.34 and Percona 3.0.11
Master: Name: db-master1 (192.168.14.5)
Slave:
Name: db-slave2 (192.168.15.5) Replica Connection ...
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DBForge can't connect with MySQL server, server is running
I recently installed the latest version of MySQL Server.
I initialized it with --initialize-insecure so I have a "root" user with no password set.
The server is running, with the command mysqld --...
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Very Sporadic Cannot initialize the data source object of OLE DB provider “SQLNCLI11” for linked server
OLE DB provider "SQLNCLI11" for linked server "001" returned message "Unable to complete login process due to delay in opening server connection".
Msg 7303, Level 16, State 1, Line 19
Cannot ...
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Stored Procedure Execute as Owner Close Database Connections Not Working
I created a stored procedure to allow users to Close All Db connections in the QA environment. I am SA and created the procedure.
When I modify the SP , run it Without 'Execute as Owner', I get ...
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Mysql 5.7 cannot start again
For the first time in my life, I have Ubuntu, so I do not know much how to manage and what should I be looking for; I'm using version 18.04.
I installed MySQL 5.7, it worked great for a couple of days ...
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Permission errors on insert after schema drop/create (Pg 9.0.23)
We have a web application that allows users to modify data through an API. In order to allow people to run tests, we provide a sandbox area called 'daily'. This sandbox gets refreshed every day from ...
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Unable to connect from remote computer, while local connection works
I have a Windows 2008 R2 64-bit server with SQL server 2008 R2 installed on it.
I manage to log to SQL server with SSMS with the sa SQL account and with a test SQL account.
But when I try to ...
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Having multiple ResultSets in parallel on same connection.. Will it cause any problem? [Mysql/Postgres] [closed]
I have tried out the following in my local machine using jdbc/mysql:
step 1: conn = getNewConnection
step 2: stmt1 = "new statement" using connection 'conn'
step 3: stmt2 = "new statement" using ...
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“undefined function pg_pconnect()” when connecting to Postgres from CodeIgniter
I just installed Postgresql and pgadmin in my Ubuntu system. I can create a database from the pgadmin interface and everything seems ok, but when I try to connect to the database from my CodeIgniter ...
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in what situations the dynamic port number in sql server is used?
I have the following script to find out what is the Static and dynamic port numbers:
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-- sys.dm_exec_connections
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SELECT
[user]=...
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Connections increasing by 10+ a second with no requests
I'm getting no answers from my host, but I suspect their DB servers are compromised.
I was getting some ridiculous page loads for requests to a standard Wordpress installation - upwards of 30 seconds,...
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What reason could cause AWS RDS connections to
It's my first time using RDS on AWS, I use a t2.medium instance running MySQL Aurora with default configs. The CPU usage and DB connections is quite normal until "something" happen, which cause the DB ...
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Connection's MAC address randomly changes on Windows 10, then stops
Because reasons (tm), we want to identify the client's MAC address on SQL Server side (local network, not about security, enables a very convenient feature in way transparent for applications).
We do ...
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Oracle Client sessions keep disconnecting
We recently moved our Oracle server from a remote location to a local server and now the Oracle clients keep disconnecting.
It does not seem to be a timeout issue because it happens while we are ...
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Check connection details to SQL Server 2000/2005
I want to migrate some databases hosted in SQL Server 2000/2005 to SQL Server 2014.
I don't have direct access to the databases and I want to know all applications connecting to it and connection ...
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Cannot connect to mongos
Following the MongoDB Sharding Documentation, I start a mongos using a configuration file with the specifics of my config server.
It seems rather straightforward, yet I am running into an issue. I ...
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Azure SQL Databases: High number of SA connections with “BRKR TASK” and “TASK MANAGER” commands
Found out that all our Azure SQL Databases (pricing tiers S1-S2) have high number of connections/sessions from SA
SA - BRKR TASK - around 60 sessions
SA - TASK MANAGER - around 20 sessions
Here are ...
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What if a connection closes in the middle of a commit?
I have a few large CSV files to upload to an instance of SQL Server.(Nope, can't use SSMS)
I'm using JDBC to read the CSVs line by line and insert the lines in a table in batches.
Supposing my code is ...
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SQL server 2008R2 default encryption?
I was wondering if SQL server 2008 R2 has any default security if you're using it via ODBC or SQL Server Management Studio?
I was reading about SSL here
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/...
